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The Big Country

( Catalog Number ID7352MG )
(2.35:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Audio commentary
The unedited mono music score
Interviews with Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, and Billy Wilder taken by Catherine Wyler's documentary Directed by William Wyle
"Fun in The Big Country", a truly mindless piece narrated by Jean Simmons, made during the filming of the picture
A tv promo for ABC's Sunday Night Movie
Hundreds of stills; Pressbook materials; and the near final screenplay
Analog track 1 on side 1: Audio commentary on the music by William H. Rosar and illustrative cues played by Jeffrey Hunter. It a

The Big Country
1958 - 168 min. - Color
Genre: Western

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Wyler's powerful Western covers a lot of territory with Gregory Peck a fish out of water as a sea captain who travels west to marry and settle, but finds himself in the middle of a bitter dispute over water rights and a jealous clash with the ranch foreman (Charlton Heston). He also discovers his fiancee isn't who he imagined and finds true romance with the local schoolmistress (Jean Simmons). Folk singer Burl Ives surprised audiences with his performance which garnered him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
The Big Country is a lavish, over-sized western with a "B"-picture plot. Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a coward, especially when challenged by Bickford's cocksure foreman Charlton Heston. The far-from-cowardly Peck decides to distance himself from the machismo overload at the Bickford spread, settling for a romance with headstrong schoolmarm Jean Simmons, whose water-rich lands are being fought over by the two warring ranchers. When Jean is kidnapped by Ives' no-good son Chuck Connors, Peck decides to take action. He quickly proves to one and all that it is Connors who is the only yellow-belly in these parts; the feud is settled not by the second-generation combatants but by Bickford and Ives, who end up killing each other. In the old Republic days, The Big Country would have been on and off the screen in 70 minutes, but all-star films in the 1950s had to be blockbusters or they couldn't make back their cost. The best scene in Big Country is the least overblown; When Heston insists upon duking it out with Peck, the latter agrees to do so only if no one else is around (he has nothing to prove to anyone) then proceeds to whale the tar out of Heston, in a lengthy bout that is as crude and clumsy as any real, non-Hollywoodized fistfight. Whenever The Big Country threatens to lose its self-styled grandeur, the film relies heavily upon its classic musical score by Jerome Moross. --- Hal Erickson

Burl Ives, better known for his singing, won an Oscar as a tyrannical land baron in this sweeping Western saga, a sprawling, nearly three-hour epic about two families feuding over water rights. It featured Gregory Peck opposite two love interests (Carroll Baker and Jean Simmons), and it had a major role for Charlton Heston as well. Even television's The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, was part of the cast. Staggering vistas and a grandiose story make this an emblematic Western, though its emotions are transparent. Some critics believed that it was an allegory about the Cold War. Veteran director William Wyler had survived the anti-Communist blacklisting of the McCarthy era and, a year later, would go on to direct Ben-Hur. --- Michael Betzold

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Cast for The Big Country

Gregory Peck - James McKay
Jean Simmons - Julie Maragon
Carroll Baker - Pat Terrill
Charlton Heston - Steve Leech
Burl Ives - Rufus Hannassey
Charles Bickford - Maj. Henry Terrill
Alfonso Bedoya - Ramon
Chuck Connors - Buck Hannassey
Chuck Hayward - Rafe
Buff Brady - Dude
Jim Burk - Cracker
Dorothy Adams - Hannassey Woman
Chuck Roberson - Terrill Cowboy
John R. McKee - Terrill Cowboy
Burt Mustin
Bob Morgan - Terrill Cowboy

Crew for The Big Country

William Wyler - Director / Producer
Gregory Peck - Producer
Sy Bartlett - Screenwriter
Donald Hamilton - Book Author
James R. Webb - Screenwriter
Robert Wilder - Screenwriter
Franz Planer - Cinematographer
Jerome Moross - Composer (Music Score)
Robert Belcher - Editor
John D. Faure - Editor
Eddie Armand - Costume Designer
Emile Santiago - Costume Designer
Yvonne Wood - Costume Designer

Awards for The Big Country

Best Score (nom) Jerome Moross 1958 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (win) Burl Ives 1958 Academy
Best Director (nom) William Wyler 1958 Directors Guild of America
Best British Film William Wyler 1959 British Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor (win) 1959 Golden Globe

Feature Details

Title: The Big Country
Feature Release Date: 1958
Genre: Western
Color: Color
Runtime: 168 Minutes
Chapters: 98
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

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Technical Details

LD Release Date: 7 Feb 1996
Catalog Number: ID7352MG
UPC: 014381735260
ISBN: none
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi
Publisher: Image Entertainment

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: ID7352MG
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, Burl Ives and Chuck Connors in...

The Big Country

( Catalog Number ID7352MG )
(2.35:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Audio commentary
The unedited mono music score
Interviews with Gregory Peck, Charlton Heston, and Billy Wilder taken by Catherine Wyler's documentary Directed by William Wyle
"Fun in The Big Country", a truly mindless piece narrated by Jean Simmons, made during the filming of the picture
A tv promo for ABC's Sunday Night Movie
Hundreds of stills; Pressbook materials; and the near final screenplay
Analog track 1 on side 1: Audio commentary on the music by William H. Rosar and illustrative cues played by Jeffrey Hunter. It a

The Big Country
1958 - 168 min. - Color
Genre: Western

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
Wyler's powerful Western covers a lot of territory with Gregory Peck a fish out of water as a sea captain who travels west to marry and settle, but finds himself in the middle of a bitter dispute over water rights and a jealous clash with the ranch foreman (Charlton Heston). He also discovers his fiancee isn't who he imagined and finds true romance with the local schoolmistress (Jean Simmons). Folk singer Burl Ives surprised audiences with his performance which garnered him a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
The Big Country is a lavish, over-sized western with a "B"-picture plot. Gregory Peck plays a seafaring man who heads west to marry Carroll Baker, the daughter of rancher Charles Bickford. Bickford is currently embroiled in a water-rights feud with covetous Burl Ives, so both he and his daughter are hoping that Peck can take care of himself. But Peck, who doesn't belief in fisticuffs, appears to be a coward, especially when challenged by Bickford's cocksure foreman Charlton Heston. The far-from-cowardly Peck decides to distance himself from the machismo overload at the Bickford spread, settling for a romance with headstrong schoolmarm Jean Simmons, whose water-rich lands are being fought over by the two warring ranchers. When Jean is kidnapped by Ives' no-good son Chuck Connors, Peck decides to take action. He quickly proves to one and all that it is Connors who is the only yellow-belly in these parts; the feud is settled not by the second-generation combatants but by Bickford and Ives, who end up killing each other. In the old Republic days, The Big Country would have been on and off the screen in 70 minutes, but all-star films in the 1950s had to be blockbusters or they couldn't make back their cost. The best scene in Big Country is the least overblown; When Heston insists upon duking it out with Peck, the latter agrees to do so only if no one else is around (he has nothing to prove to anyone) then proceeds to whale the tar out of Heston, in a lengthy bout that is as crude and clumsy as any real, non-Hollywoodized fistfight. Whenever The Big Country threatens to lose its self-styled grandeur, the film relies heavily upon its classic musical score by Jerome Moross. --- Hal Erickson

Burl Ives, better known for his singing, won an Oscar as a tyrannical land baron in this sweeping Western saga, a sprawling, nearly three-hour epic about two families feuding over water rights. It featured Gregory Peck opposite two love interests (Carroll Baker and Jean Simmons), and it had a major role for Charlton Heston as well. Even television's The Rifleman, Chuck Connors, was part of the cast. Staggering vistas and a grandiose story make this an emblematic Western, though its emotions are transparent. Some critics believed that it was an allegory about the Cold War. Veteran director William Wyler had survived the anti-Communist blacklisting of the McCarthy era and, a year later, would go on to direct Ben-Hur. --- Michael Betzold

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Cast for The Big Country

Gregory Peck - James McKay
Jean Simmons - Julie Maragon
Carroll Baker - Pat Terrill
Charlton Heston - Steve Leech
Burl Ives - Rufus Hannassey
Charles Bickford - Maj. Henry Terrill
Alfonso Bedoya - Ramon
Chuck Connors - Buck Hannassey
Chuck Hayward - Rafe
Buff Brady - Dude
Jim Burk - Cracker
Dorothy Adams - Hannassey Woman
Chuck Roberson - Terrill Cowboy
John R. McKee - Terrill Cowboy
Burt Mustin
Bob Morgan - Terrill Cowboy

Crew for The Big Country

William Wyler - Director / Producer
Gregory Peck - Producer
Sy Bartlett - Screenwriter
Donald Hamilton - Book Author
James R. Webb - Screenwriter
Robert Wilder - Screenwriter
Franz Planer - Cinematographer
Jerome Moross - Composer (Music Score)
Robert Belcher - Editor
John D. Faure - Editor
Eddie Armand - Costume Designer
Emile Santiago - Costume Designer
Yvonne Wood - Costume Designer

Awards for The Big Country

Best Score (nom) Jerome Moross 1958 Academy
Best Supporting Actor (win) Burl Ives 1958 Academy
Best Director (nom) William Wyler 1958 Directors Guild of America
Best British Film William Wyler 1959 British Academy Awards
Best Supporting Actor (win) 1959 Golden Globe

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